Even though it is SD, my 2 bit.
Campo, haitian lady friend. I never have wanted a maid. Pay as we go, is more my way. 300, 400 pesos a days work.
Well recently this haitiana friend of my wife ( who is a great person, helped out my wife free of charge when she broke her foot, cooks, weeds, laundry, clean...... u name it she does it......), has trouble meeting ends.
Cacao collecting in fincas is not what it used to be a couple of years back......
Anyway she asked if we could employ her full time. I explained that we didnt have the money to be able to do that. ( in 3 years my wife and I hace veen here like 24 months, without income......).
They talked after that. She tells my wife for 3000 pesos a month, she will come 6 days a week !!!!!!
She, of course gets fed well ( eats the same as us ), and gets platanos, eggs, chickens, yucca, whatever we are harvesting....... to take home.
She says it is worth it, only for the produce. And because we treat her like a real person (!!!!!).
Anyway, in the end she gets 3500 pesos a month, any day off she needs to work somewhere else ( but she seldom uses any.....), and a "kitty" of 1000 pesos a month, to be paid when we go back to europe for a stint. ( I regurlay propose to pay it off, but she prefers it to be safe with us ).